Pantera Capital Junior Partner Mason Nystrom explains his thesis on stablecoins being the core technology to reinvent fintech rails to be more blockchain native. Episode 44 of The Crypto Beat was ...

Rumble, the video streaming platform significantly backed by stablecoin giant Tether, announced that its 51 million monthly active users will be able to tip creators in Bitcoin, USDT, and Tether Gold ...

In 2025, there has been an average of 720,000 unique stablecoin senders on Ethereum per week. The following is excerpted from The Block’s Data and Insights newsletter. The number of unique stablecoin ...

A group of major banks with a global reach, including Banco Santander, Bank of America, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs, is jointly exploring the issuance of a stablecoin ...

Kalshi’s new round would value the platform at $5 billion and comes with plans to serve 140+ countries. The raise was shared in the same week as Polymarket’s $2 billion investment from NYSE parent ...

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the prediction platform raised $55 million in 2024 and $150 million earlier this year. The previously undisclosed rounds were revealed after a $2 billion investment ...

While buybacks and revenue sharing draw functions similar to traditional finance, it remains important to distinguish crypto tokens from equity securities. The following is excerpted from The Block’s ...

Monthly spot trading volume across centralized crypto exchanges fell to $1.67 trillion in September, the lowest level since June. Binance maintained its position as the largest exchange, recording ...

Kalshi Head of Crypto John Wang said he aims to integrate the platform into every major crypto app and exchange within the next 12 months. Wang also described prediction markets as the “Trojan Horse” ...

World Liberty Financial is exploring tokenization of various real-world assets, including commodities such as oil, gas, cotton, and timber. The project plans to pair tokenized assets with its USD1 ...

Swift, the global payments network, is experimenting “with migrating their messaging system onchain” using Ethereum Layer 2, according to a report. The project, which is still in development, involves ...

Bitcoin miner Cipher has signed a 10-year, 168 MW AI hosting agreement with Fluidstack, backed by a $1.v4 billion guarantee from Google, who receive a 5.4% equity stake. The company also proposed an ...